Local author Susan Edwards Richmond will read her new book, The Great Pollinator Count, illustrated by Stephanie Fizer Coleman, about a child who counts pollinators with her school science club and learns the importance of teamwork in community science. The interactive reading includes an introduction to pollination, a review and ID of different pollinators, and […]
"Breaking the Polarization Trap" Discussions from History to Solutions with speakers Danielle Allen and Robert Gross Limited seating Reservations required, scholarships available
Goodwin Forum Main Library129 Main Street, Concord, MA, 01742 Please join us for the annual Joel Myerson Lecture: "Stepping Out of Time: Thoreau, Lopez, and the Question of Transcendentalism Today," presented by Prof. Laura Dassow Walls. "Is this who we are?" It's the question of the day, but generations ago the Transcendentalists asked it as […]
Join us for a lively and luminous evening with celebrated poet, scholar, and memoirist Dr. Barbara Mossberg, as she brings to life her latest work, Clown Cantos: Everything Is Alive In Its Own Way, Singing. Inspired by Radiotopia’s Everything Is Alive, Dolly Parton, Dante, Dickinson, Einstein, Emerson—and always, Thoreau—Mossberg invites us to hear the hidden music of […]
Join us for a program and performance with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers, a group of musicians and artisans from the tribal communities of Mashpee on Cape Cod and Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Participate in the performance of eastern social songs and dances. Free. Participation is limited. Advanced registration is […]
Concord Festival of Authors Showcases Outstanding Line-up of Books, Speakers and Stories for All in October 2025 The annual Concord Festival of Authors (CFA), managed by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, celebrates the written and spoken word this fall with two weeks of literary events throughout town from October 18-November 1. The […]
The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present the 2025 Breakfast with the Authors panel, which will take place at Concord's Colonial Inn, 48 Monument Square. The event will be moderated by local author and physician, Dr. Suzanne Koven. CFA Breakfast tickets will be sold locally at the Barrow Bookstore as well as online […]
The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library Poetry Series presents Jonathan Aaron and Linda Flaherty Haltmaier, two outstanding poets at the height of their powers. Jonathan Aaron reads from his fourth collection, Just About Anything: New and Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2025). A poem uses words to try to get at what […]
In partnership with the Concord Festival of Authors, Richard Higgins will discuss his new book, "Thoreau’s God", which recovers a central thread in Thoreau’s life and work that has been ignored or dismissed—his personal religiosity and iconoclastic theological vision. Both are woven through Thoreau’s work as a naturalist and his philosophical thought and ethical commitments. […]
The Robbins House presents Tara Roberts, author of Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home and Belonging. When Tara Roberts first caught sight of a photograph at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History depicting the scuba and underwater archaeology group Diving With a Purpose, it called out to her. Here were […]